atanil wrote: - pendrive is too slow when coping file to it. Copy starts with a good speed (10 Mb/s) but slowdown to 800 kb/s.A movie with 700 Mb spends 10 min to be copied when normal should be ~1 min.I think this not a Mint KDE bug. Quick search on Google let me know this is possibly a kernel bug but I think it's important enough to be reported here.

Normally when i copy something onto a external HDD, usb stick/pendrive or memorycard, i have a speed of 20MB or sometimes higher under Ubuntu or Linux Mint 7 Gnome. It's freakin' fast.

In Kubuntu 9.04 and LM 7 KDE CE however it's indeed very slow from time to time. Also had that experience under openSUSE and other KDE 4 distro's. Could be KDE related me thinks.

When I install new widgets from the internet (Add Widgets -> Install new widgets -> Download new plasma widgets) I get and error message when I close the windows to install widgets saying that it couldn't be installed, but I checked my list of widgets and there were the widgets that I had installed eventhough the error message said it couldn't be installed.

Mint 7 KDE RC1 gives new form and functionality to KDE. It seems quite stable on my netbook but I have encountered the following problems:

1) Boot time very slow - 1 minute, 45 seconds from grub to desktop with wifi on. Unchecking Mint KDE usplash (widgets against black background) and using the simple progress bar reduced boot time to 1 minute, 12 seconds. This is still very slow compared with 45 seconds on Mint 7 gnome.

2) Applications in System Settings (e.g., login manager) slow to launch - Apparently you can only launch one icon at a time; this has to be closed if you want to launch another.

3) Not all screen edges in Desktop Effects are working properly or consistently (e.g., desktop cube) - Sometimes selecting one effect for one point (e.g., grid) applies the same effect to other points

Not too sure there is a bug in this, so far I haven't replicated the issue. But on two separate installs the launcher has just failed to open the menu. (same machine) The only thing on both occasions similar were multiple open folders (probably not the same one's) To resolve it I right clicked the launcher icon and changed the launcher to the alternative option and then back and all worked fine.

So far I have had no real issues. Running the 185.18.14 nvidia driver seems fine.

Looking good so far. Nice work.

..::EDIT::..I have managed to replicate - it seems to happen if the default iconset is changed. Still don't think it's a bug though.

REPOST IN BUG FORUM---I have noticed a problem with the display manager and or video driver. I tried installing this on a laptop with ati radeon x200 graphics and all went well. Rebooted into installed system but moments after starting to use KDE, the display froze followed by vertical stripy lines, at which point I tried crtl+alt+F4 to try and escape to the terminal prompt but the system was completely frozen. This has now happened a number of times. I'm not sure if this is just limited to ati graphics, but all I can say is that it's worked perfectly with mint 6 kde for the last 3 months flawlessly.

Mint KDE team, I'd take a quick look at what has been changed in the display manager packages just to see if there are any problems there that could cause this. I'll try installing again and try the propritary drivers just to see if that helps. But this is a common problem I've had with all Ubuntu based distros on this laptop (Fujitsu amilo 1650), apart from mint 6 kde.

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Another thing I have found is that the Grub boot loader icon in the System settings page is now missing. This is just a minor inconvience though and maybe something for the final release.

Nice work, installed on my Acer Aspire One with no problems. I have noticed one annoying bug though. When I click on the shutdown widget in the panel, the menu that pops up with shutdown options (the one that has the planet on it) is distorted. It looks like it got squished and is not its normal width.

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